The Pirate Bay may face another police raid

It’s not easy being enemy number one in the fight against online piracy. This is a lesson The Pirate Bay has known for years. But it may soon face increased hassle, in the form of a visit from police. The Pirate Bay tells Torrentfreak that it has received information from tipsters that law enforcement authorities in Sweden, where The Pirate Bay is officially based, are preparing another raid on the popular file-sharing site.

According to The Pirate Bay team, Swedish authorities have obtained warrants, and have enlisted two well-known anti-piracy prosecutors, Frederick Ingblad and Henrik Rasmusson, to lead in the case against The Pirate Bay.

“The Swedish district attorney Fredrik Ingblad initiated a new investigation into The Pirate Bay back in 2010. Information has been leaked to us every now and then by multiple sources, almost on a regular basis. It’s an interesting read,” writes The Pirate Bay on its blog.

The last time The Pirate Bay was raided, in 2006, officers failed to shut down the torrent site, but managed to gather information that was later used to convict the site’s founders.

Now, however, The Pirate Bay crew says they are more than prepared to deal with snoop-happy law enforcement.

“TPB is set up in a very special way to make sure that it will stay up. This means that no one really knows exactly where the servers are, but we’ve made sure to stay out of the United States of Arrogance and some other countries where the governments do not like free speech.” writes The Pirate Bay.

“The only box someone could find is the one in the front, that needs to be public. We have multiple of those, scattered like diarrhea around the world. They contain no storage device, no graphics card. Only a network cable, a cpu and memory. Being nice people, we’ve put small easters egg into each box though, for the hard work put into finding that public machine! Nothing dangerous though, just funny.”